strrev() and brackets issue?

is there an easy way to make it not reverse brackets, i.e. not to convert "(" to ")"

cheers

 

i don't think so, just replace the brackets with the opposite one before using strrev()...

 

nah, that won't work:

all brackets end up being the same...

 

Try this:

Does that work for you? Not sure if str_replace() does all the replacements simultaneously or one-after-one, though...

 

nope, no luck just the same as before...

 

Well... there's a way I can think of, but it's not clean and it's not "pretty"

$str=str_replace(array(')','('),array('V67ggbvoA','vfUtFiuF6'),$str);
$str=strrev($str);
$str=str_replace(array(strrev('V67ggbvoA'),strrev('vfUtFiuF6')),array(')','('),$str);

PHP:

This was just an illustration of what I thought. Of course, you might need to change it to fit your needs.

 

thanks, will give it a shot, but trying to understand what V67ggbvoA and vfUtFiuF6 is?

 

Just random strings You can put whatever you want in there, just make sure it's not something found on the original string.

 

you can maybe do something like:

$string = "(My String)";

$string = str_replace("(","_(_",$string);
$string = str_replace(")","_)_",$string);

$string = strrev($string);

$string = str_replace("_(_",")",$string);
$string = str_replace("_)_","(",$string);

PHP:

 

nope, no luck. both methods still continue to flip the brackets

i'm going to raise the stakes and offer the first person with a working method a $45 google adwords voucher!

 

you sure? I just tried what I posted and it worked...

INPUT: (My String)
OUTPUT: (gnirtS yM)

 

Try using this function instead, you can add more cases for all different brackets

function reverse($var){
$len=strlen($var)-1;
for($i=$len; $i>=0; $i--){
switch ($var[$i]){
	case "(":
		$var[$i]=")";
		break;
	case ")":
		$var[$i]="(";
		break;	   
}//endswitch
$rvar.=$var[$i];
}//end for
return $rvar;
}//end function

PHP:

 

great stuff, that did the trick. thanks everyone for your help - much appreciated!

 

Neat little snippet to keep on my clipboard